Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-04-04
State News.
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non. sumner Whitney of Presque Isle. i,
dangerously Ill from the effects of blood
po'sonine- He is not expected 10 live.-The
n NV VIII receive vigorous enforcement
nere.-Our business men are consider.hIr,
inconvenienced by the late scheme of ,.L;n.
provincial bank notes. 1t will PROBABLY MOI.
failure.-The Village Improvement 49,.
clation Will plant large number of shade
trees on our streets this year
deputy U. S. Marshal johnson Of po,,-
,aho' arrived at Houlton. Sunday, from A.h.
iAuo' win woman whom he arrested far
seiilng liquor without being provided win
tue necessary permit from Uncle Sam.
Inc Afoostook Pioneer reports that the
lnmoermen are forced TO kill their horse,
ihey are unable to get them out of The voo6.
and have no food for them.
CUMBERLAND
Bowdoin College Scholarsbip,. Ro~do;,
college has received the gift of g.. 600 from
MRS. NJ. j. Whitmore of Brunswick Ia
FOUND two scholarships in memory of her
sons Nathaniel Mcclellan Whitmore of the
class OF 1854, and George Sidney Whitmore
| Of the class of 1856
brunswick is rejoicing over her electric
i9hts' Both the Bush and Incandescent avs.
TENS are in operation. The latter is pre-
ferred. pie
The hrst meeting of the Loan and Build.
ing Association was held in W. T Haine,'s
once Saturday evening and the certificate of
organization WAS sworn to BY the twenty
Charter members
HANCOCK.
The Frenchman's BAY Land COMPANY have
made extensive purchases of land recently
ana now own the greater part of Waukeag
foine, where they are building a substantial
steamboat wharf and making other improve.
ments. The place is known as Sorrento. and
Il destined TO be popular resort. Several
me cottages are to be built there the coming
| season.
Capt C. w. Connors of Bar Harbor hs.
gone 10 Boston to complete arrangements for
buying steam barge to ply between Sorrento
and Sullivan and along shore. 1t will he
provided with steam hosting gear and there.
fore be able to load or unload at any time of
tide. 1t will carry $4,000 feet of lumber.
Stock in the Lamoine Water Works is said
to be in considerable demand. The COMPANY
Will resume work early this spring and the
main pipe will undoubtedly be laid to the
steamboat wharf BY June. Branch pipes to
the houses will be put in as the work pro.
crosses.
The COS tons of l6-ipch pipe for the ex.
tension OF the main suppiy-pipe of the Bar
Harbor Water Co to Eagle Lake has all been
landed and is now being distributed along the
line.
KNOX.
The Rockport Railroad Company have re.
celved lot of car wheels from Boston, and
will Immediately put on eleven more cars.
Mlnot Tolman & Sons have burned and
hauled to Rockp ,rt, from their old-style kiln,
about 800 casks of lime.
LINCOLN.
The Lincoln county News saws: As Alma
couldn't afford to raise seventy five dollars to
repair the old Pownaboro church which has
stood the storms of more than a hundred
years and is now all the town house we have
or shall have for the next hundred years,un.
less things change very much, we suppose it
will have to rot down over the heads of those
close listed men who meet there year after
year and vote not to spend cent for repairs.
The horse of Mr.. Henry Gould of Alma
became frightened FRIDAY. by cat jumping
into the stable floor where he was harnessed,
and took little exercise without driver. He
passed through the villages and was stopped
after running some distance. The pung was
slightly damaged.
Our Edgecomb correspondent writes :
Some very fine scollops have been sold in the
Wiscasset market. They were taken from
the Sheepscot river. These are the first that
have been found there.-Ar w. Hatch left
for Dakota Monday.-The Free Will Baptist
Society have continued the psstorate of Rev.
L. H. Winslow.
The Knox & Lincoln railroad has hauled
over 800 cords of kiln wood to the Rockland
lime manufacturers.
A petition has been circulated at Union
requesting the Governor and Council Of
Maine to appoint Frank Anderson of Cam
den, A. ID. Orne and j. b. Lorng of Rock
land as special State constables of Knox
county.
Johnson Knight has transformed building
formerly occupied BY the Union Fish Co., on
Bay View street. Camden, into a steam, saw
and grist mill, and commenced work therein,
using forty-fve horse power engine.
the Knox Wooden Co., having an increased
demand for their productions, are making
arrangements for the immediate erection of
a new three story mill, 40xl00 feet.
Steamer Mount Waldo, Capt. Patterson,
has loaded at Vinalhaven, with bridge stone
for the Harlem river bridge.